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Fabienne Serriere wants to hack an industrial knitting machine to make cellular automata scarves, and you can back her project on Kickstarter.
Roots of Unity
Mathematics: learning it, doing it, celebrating it.
The Unbearable Literalism of Being a Mathematician or Why I Hate Literary Disclaimers
Mathematicians, like kleptomaniacs, take things literally. This is the story of how I finally snapped and wrote a strongly worded blog post about why literary disclaimers annoy me.
A Belated Apology to Mozart and Modular Arithmetic
What do Mozart and modular arithmetic have in common? I used to think I didn't like them. I'm sorry, Mozart and modular arithmetic. Please forgive me.
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: Cantor's Leaky Tent
The mathematical space called Cantor's leaky tent is connected but just barely: remove one point, and the whole thing falls apart.
When the Mona Lisa Is NP-Hard
Bob Bosch and Tom Wexler have developed a new way to make your favorite masterpieces into connect-the-dots puzzles. All you need is a little bit of quantification and a lot of computing time.
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Topologist's Sine Curve
The topologist's sine curve is a classic example of a space that is connected but not path connected: you can see the finish line, but you can't get there from here.
Proof, Pudding, and Pi: Math Books that Will Make You Hungry
Need some summer reading? How to Bake Pi by Eugenia Cheng and The Proof and the Pudding by Jim Henle show us that math and cooking have more in common than you might think.
Grapefruit Math
Spherical geometry: it's part of this complete breakfast.
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: Fat Cantor Sets
Last month, I wrote about the Cantor set, a mathematical space that is an interesting mix of small and large. It's small in the sense that its length is 0.
Mathematics, Live: A Conversation with Katie Steckles and Laura Taalman
Two math communicators talk about how they got interested in math and how they share their enthusiasm with others
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